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Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Kejriwal Government is Misleading People on Punjabi Language and Sikh Victims Issues: Manjinder Singh Sirsa

"Punjabi teachers should be appointed
permanently and Punjabi language should be made a compulsory subject"

Kejriwal government is indulging in misleading
actions about issue of promotion of Punjabi language in Delhi in order to show
off before the voters of Punjab, while it should take concrete and relevant steps
for the development of Punjabi language. These words were expressed in a press
statement issued here by Sh. Manjinder Singh Sirsa, the general secretary of
Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management Committee and the Minister of State, Punjab
government.

Sh.Sirsa stated that he had been providing
factual information to Kejriwal government through a number of letters and with
the help of media, about the problems being faced by the students and teacher
of Punjabi language subject in Delhi. Due to the pressure created on Kejriwal
government, it slightly increased the salaries of Punjabi teachers under
compulsion and has tried to absolve itself of the issue on the basis of this
sham action. While the need of the hour was that these contract teachers, who
had been teaching Punjabi in government schools for many years, should have
been permanently appointed and provided with equal salaries and other
allowances. The few government schools where there were permanent teachers of
Punjabi subject, the posts of these teachers are lying vacant ever since the
retirement of such teachers but the government is not taking any step to fill
these vacant posts. Besides, in spite of repeated requests by him (Sh. Sirsa)
through correspondence with government, Kejriwal government has not revoked its
controversial circular shifting Punjabi language from the list of compulsory
subjects to the list of optional subjects and has ordered only to keep this
circular in abeyance till further orders only; which shows the malafide
intention of Kejriwal government.

Kejriwal government is minutely defrauding
not only Punjabi teachers but also the whole Punjabi community by depriving the
Punjabi teachers from permanent appointments and by not reinstating Punjabi as
a compulsory subject in government schools, for which the Punjabi community
will never forgive this government.

Sh. Sirsa again reminded Kejriwal government that
if this government claims to be sympathetic to the Sikhs, then it must pass a
resolution in Delhi assembly declaring 1st November as a "Black Day".
Besides, the government should instantly get repaired the decaying flats of the
victims of November 1984 massacre in Tilak Vihar colony. The government should
also take steps to provide free electricity to the victims living in these
flats because the electricity companies first send hefty bills to these
families and then stop the supply of electricity in the area for several hours,
in order to compel the victims for payments of these bills. Sh. Sirsa said that
if Kejriwal government fails in taking such steps, its claims of being the
well-wisher of Sikh community will prove to be just a political gimmick.